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Prominent community leader Song Ong Siang was born in Singapore on June 14, He was the eldest son of pioneer Straits Chinese Christian Song Hoot Kiam and his second wife, Phan Fung Lean.
The older Song is well recognised for his contributions to the Straits Chinese Church (today’s Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church), a legacy that his family carried on.
The younger Song, also known as Sir Ong Siang Song, was the first Chinese in Singapore and Malaya to be knighted by the British king in Blessed with exceptional academic aptitude, he studied at the Raffles Institution and won the Queen’s Scholarship (today’s President Scholarship) three times consecutively but was disqualified twice for being underage.
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He then became the first local to further his studies at Cambridge University. Upon his graduation in , Song returned home to become the first Asian lawyer in the colony. Although he mainly handled chancery and conveyance work, Song took to court occasionally, notably